Leadership

Chairman Jonathan L. Snare

Jonathan L. Snare is the Chairman of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Commissioner in October 2025 and was sworn in as Chairman on November 25, 2025.

Chairman Snare served in several roles at the U.S. Labor Department between 2003-2009, including as Acting Assistant Secretary for OSHA and Deputy Assistant Secretary, and as Deputy Solicitor of Labor and Acting Solicitor of Labor. Immediately prior to his current appointment to the OSHRC, he served as Acting Solicitor/Deputy Solicitor at the United States Department of Labor (February 2025 – November 2025).

From 2009 to 2025, Chairman Snare was in private law practice in Washington, D.C. where he focused on workplace safety and health.

In the past two decades, Chairman Snare has written extensively for legal publications on workplace-safety topics as well as labor and employment issues. Snare has been a frequent speaker at safety conferences and legal/bar conferences, all focused on workplace safety topics and related legal developments.

Prior to joining the Labor Department in 2003, he was in private law practice in Dallas,Texas. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Chairman Snare graduated from the University of Virginia and obtained a law degree from Washington & Lee University School of Law.

Carrie-Lee Early

Carrie-Lee Early is Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). Ms. Early started her career in San Francisco where she worked as a commercial litigator in private practice. She subsequently worked in private practice and public policy work in Sacramento. In 2004, Ms. Early relocated to Washington DC and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for oversight committees, as a senior career attorney and Branch Chief at the Federal Communications Commission and as a political appointee in various agencies including the U.S. Department of Labor.

Ms. Early is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Debra A. Gibbs

Debra A. Gibbs is the Executive Director of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). Ms. Gibbs oversees the broad management of administrative programs including strategic planning and budgeting, accounting and finance, human resources management, procurement and contracting, and information technology management. Prior to her appointment as Executive Director in 2012, Ms. Gibbs served as the Deputy Executive Director and Human Resources Officer.

Ms. Gibbs has 40 years of dedicated federal service. Before joining the Review Commission in 2006, Ms. Gibbs held various leadership and administrative management positions with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Transportation, National Capital Planning Commission, and the Department of the Navy. Ms. Gibbs graduated from the University of Maryland University College and has a degree in Human Resource Management.

Nadine N. Mancini

Nadine N. Mancini is the General Counsel of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). Ms. Mancini started her federal career in the agency’s Boston Regional Office where she was an attorney for the Office of Administrative Law Judges. In 1999, she relocated to Washington, DC to work as an attorney in OSHRC’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC). Prior to her appointment as General Counsel in 2008, Ms. Mancini served as a team leader and a senior counsel in OGC, as well as Chief Counsel for two appointees to the Review Commission, Chairman W. Scott Railton and Commissioner James M. Stephens.

A government member of the Administrative Conference of the United States since 2010, Ms. Mancini is currently Chair of the Conference’s Adjudication Committee. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the Fifth Edition of the ABA treatise, Occupational Safety and Health Law. Ms. Mancini received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where she currently serves on the Board of Visitors for the University Library System. An honors graduate of the University of Connecticut Law School, she is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.